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Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / German translation ('Alsatian Legenda Aurea') / Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 6 (probably Straßburg, 1362) / fol. 1-99
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 77: De sancto Urbano (May 25)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Urban / Life / At Urban's prayer, the idol collapses, killing many pagan priests
Saints / Saints A - Z / Urban / Life / Martyrdom (beheaded)

Further details

The Golden Legend speaks here of a 'simulacrum', which could also mean the image of the emperor, and does not specify the manner of Urbanus's death - however, the German translation used in this manuscript, speaks of an idol and of the saint's beheading.

Artist or creator

Straßburg (attributed)

Date

1362

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 6

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 97vb.

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